There is a lot of focus on criticizing news media and accusing those worried of consuming the bad ones, but I think that's kind of unreasonable to apply broadly

There is a lot of focus on criticizing news media and accusing those worried of consuming the bad ones, but I think that's kind of unreasonable to apply broadly. The fact, regardless, is that Putin and the Russian state news are threatening very explicitly to kill the world for confusingly-described reasons only semi-related to what's actually happening (sanctioning Russia, supplying Ukraine). It's reasonable to believe they are just trying to scare people and nothing will happen, but it's also reasonable to be worried. That said - you should indeed not worry about WW3 (at least not the nuclear kind we assume it would be), but not because of the general hatred for much of news media.